There are more writers than readers. It is not difficult to find, at the literary festival of La Vanguardia, professionals from other sectors of culture, but when they start a deeper conversation, it turns out that they all write. This is the case of Gerard Quintana, leader of Sopa de Cabra, a lifelong musician, but already carrying a few books on his back. It turns out that today he will present his latest work, La puresa de l’engany (Columna), just out of the oven. Quintana is an established writer, but he is still a musician. The same thing that happens to Rogeli Herrero, from Los Manolos, who is now publishing El gran Peret: de rumba por la vida (Larousse).
And it is also the case of Pablo Rivero, actor with a long career, famous for having played Toni Alcántara in the television series Cuéntame cómo pasó. He is also a writer. And not from the fans. He published his first novel in 2017, No volveré a tener miedo, and has already written seven. “They are all thrillers, but they don’t have a detective as a common thread, each one tells a different story.” How do you do it to act and write? “I take advantage of any free time. I’m always working.” Last night he took a little breather and a glass of wine, but it’s not the usual.
Emmanuel Guigon is director of the Picasso Museum in Barcelona, ??an art expert. He is proud of his time at the institution “because annual visits have risen to one million people, but we have also attracted 18% more visitors from Barcelona”. It turns out that Guigon is also a writer: “I have published countless books and art catalogs”, he says proudly.
And Llucià Homs is also an art expert. He now works as a consultant and leads the cultural projects of the Cercle del Liceu. In addition, he has been writing weekly articles in La Vanguardia for eight years that can at any time become a compilation book.
“I have never written anything,” says Ainhoa ??Grandes, president of the Macba Foundation. Finally someone who is dedicated to his field: “I love art and I focus on the promotion of culture”, he explains. And something similar happens to Poldo Pomés. He is a documentary filmmaker and says that he has never had the slightest intention of writing. “Nor have I ever been invited to this party, but I simply come and enter”, he confesses. He has been sneaking into the Alma hotel every night of April 22 for more than a decade. But everyone is delighted because Pomés also runs the Giardinetto restaurant, where also every April 22nd, all the most nocturnal guests of the La Vanguardia party usually present themselves (and very happily).
